Brett Ginsburg

Overview
Point of Deflection; III, 2024
Point of Deflection; III, 2024

BRETT GINSBURG (b. 1990) lives and works in New York. He received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University (2022), and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (2013). His painting and sculpture respond to the vibratory and unseen technical systems that proliferate our surroundings, engaging in the spatial navigation of infrastructural, automotive, and ecological sites. Ginsburg’s work contemplates the influence of entomology and evolutionary biology on technological progress. By inter-scaling visual information from first hand encounters and research artifacts, his work serves as an abstract proposition for questioning and perception, rather than a definitive thesis. Ginsburg’s interests also encompass imaging through machines, microscopes, scanners and casting simulation technologies to consider the internal and engineered complexities of his subjects. By adapting the indexical processes of mold-making and mono-printing, he compresses industrial materials and diverse modes of representation into singular picture planes. This technique creates subtle interferences and adds pictorial tension, reflecting the simultaneity that characterizes our attention-driven society.

 

Relevant exhibitions include Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Munich (2025, solo); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024); Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2024, solo); Kraupa–Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2023, solo); Anonymous Gallery, New York (2023); Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris (2023); Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); Below Grand, New York (2022); Green Hall Gallery, New Haven (2022); The Bunker West, Santa Monica Mountains (2020); and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2014).

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Works
  • Outlines Conspire: Kindling
    Outlines Conspire: Kindling
  • Coded in Ash
    Coded in Ash
  • Soot Fall
    Soot Fall
  • Pale Ignition
    Pale Ignition
  • Carapace 202509091236
    Carapace 202509091236
  • Carapace 202503310408
    Carapace 202503310408
  • Nocturnal Musings
    Nocturnal Musings
  • Scarab :: Datum
    Scarab :: Datum
  • Refraction
    Refraction
  • Tracery; Entangled with Kepes
    Tracery; Entangled with Kepes
  • Chrysolina 202112155658
    Chrysolina 202112155658
  • Single Surface Code
    Single Surface Code
  • Multiplier; Study from Dumas: The Human Tripod, no. 1
    Multiplier; Study from Dumas: The Human Tripod, no. 1
  • Buoyant Spore
    Buoyant Spore
  • Vas·
    Vas·
  • Multiplier; Study from Dumas: The Human Tripod, no. 2
    Multiplier; Study from Dumas: The Human Tripod, no. 2
  • In Fluid Terms
    In Fluid Terms
  • Flash Point
    Flash Point
  • Temperate Bounds; Constellated as Network of Stoppages
    Temperate Bounds; Constellated as Network of Stoppages
  • Turbid Advance
    Turbid Advance
  • Soluble Host
    Soluble Host
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